Jakarta, July 7 -- Noting that India is making rapid strides across sectors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the scale and materials used in construction of the refinery complex inaugurated earlier this month in Rajasthan is truly astonishing and the amount of steel utilised could build forty new Eiffel Towers or five Burj Khalifas while the length of cabling used is enough to wrap around the entire Earth twice.

Addressing the community event here, the Prime Minister said that India is one of the top four nations globally in terms of refining capacity.

"On July 4th, India inaugurated a massive refinery, and the scale of materials used in its construction is truly astonishing. The amount of steel utilised could build fo...